Translations:Running A Profitable Routing Node/5/en

Your node will have a mix of channels of different sizes. In general, it does not make sense to keep liquidity in channels with inactive peers. You'd want to re-allocate your inactive liquidity either through circular rebalancing or through closing inactive channels and utilizing the freed-up liquidity elsewhere. You will incur fees either way, so it comes down to weighing pros/cost of the options. Based on our experience, mixing small channels with big channels does not impact a node's routing ability.